book reviews
Anybody else remember Herve Villachaize as Tattoo? “Da plane, Boss! Da plane!” That was a stupidly fun show. Couldn’t air in this age of outraged wokeness … someone would have gotten pissy that a little person wasn’t cast as Mr. Rourke, kind of like Snow White’s DEI seven dwarves (they didn’t look like that) … …
Read the full post →“Deep, Deep Dive; or, Two Moons Underground”
Don’t read many of the classics … should, but shoulda/coulda/woulda, didn’t/won’t/can’t … all know that drill. Anyhoo, dunno why but decided to crack open Oscar Wilde’s magnum opus / opus arrogantia and see what there was to see. The homoeroticism is so very slaaaay qeeen, not very subtle was Mr. Wilde. But those who know him …
Must say … highly impressed. The CryptKeeper will def go down in history as one of the greatest. Totally self-sacrificed. Gotta say … much respect. To step away from the most powerful position(well, one of) on the planet? For the good of the nation? Recognizing that yes, you are the problem? Mad props. The final …
Much like the Jan.6 insurrectionists/rioters/patriots/goons, sometimes have to wonder if Stephen King just smears stuff on the wall to see what sticks. Not that this was a bad read, no … stayed curious as to what’s next. But the payoff? So not worth the buy-in. And actually like Stephen King (gotta say his whole name, …
I like Bob De Niro. Seems like a crusty yet amusing person … your mom’s older brother who stockpiles guns and dirty jokes … “You talkin’ to me?” Unfortunately, methinks he gets typecast as a gangster … did not know he was up for Jack Torrance at the Overlook but Jack did it better / …
Enter: Annuities. In the most basic of the basic sense, an annuity is like an insurance policy to receive tax-deferred payments. Sounds nice, right? Yeah but OF COURSE more complicated than that. For see, to wit … Annuities are offered by insurance companies, basically two types: The real beauty of annuities is that the $$$/investment/money …
One crucial ingredient for the investment portfolio pie? = Mutual funds (see that investment company, ydoncha) The major beauty of mutual funds is the “set it / forget it” aspect BUT but must consider a few things …… #1 being the “annual expense ratio” or AER, the yearly fee (paid by you) to run the …
One friendly aspect of our highly-digitized times is that there are intro apps to the world of investing, which is actually sorta cool. Carbon dating myself a bit here but remember the commercials – “My broker is E.F. Hutton, and E.F. Hutton says …” and everyone would stop what they were doing, ‘cuz he’s about …
Foreign funds: Value of the US Dollar goes ↑?Foreign/int’l currency less valuable bc can buy less with other countries’ monies, more expensive to buy US goods because the dollar buys more. Foreign funds: Value of the US Dollar goes ↓?Foreign/int’l currency more valuable bc can buy more with other countries’ monies, less expensive to buy …
Read the full post →“Hedge the Hog; or, Lay Low and Spread Wide”
A 100-year-old scientist spent the last 80 years of his life trying to create … well, life … without God, so much so that man(kind) would no longer need Him. The scientist worked and hypothesized and experimented until finally – success. He was able to replicate that initial spark of being, that trigger of existence, …
